Cushioned horseshoe



(No Model.)

L. D. SAXTON. GUSHIONED HORSESHOE.

No. 600,555. Patented Mar. 15, 1898.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LIONEL D. SAXTON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CUSHIONED HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 600,555, dated March 15, 1898.

Application filed January 26, 1897. Serial No. 620,786. (No model.)

To otZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LIONEL D. SAXTON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia,State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in I-Iorseshoes,which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a soft-tread shoe having flanges forming a recess for soft packing or tread, the outer flange being beveled outwardly and countersunk to receive the nail-holes, the countersinks extending into the wall of the flange and beveled toward the nail-holes.

Figure 1 represents a bottom plan view of a horseshoe embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a view of the inner side of the shoe, including a vertical section on line a: m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a transverse section on line 3 'y, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a horseshoe, and B designates the toe portion thereof. 0 designates pins or cores which are inserted vertically in said portion B, the same being formed of harder or tougher metal or material than that of the body of the shoe, whereby when the shoe is in use the cores come in contact with the street or ground, by which provision the wearing qualities of the shoe are increased, avoiding the construction of the entire body of the superior material of the cores and the consequent expense and weight thereof; but to the use of said pins or cores I do not limit my invention.

In the under side of the shoe is a vertical groove D, which is occupied by the pad or cushion E, formed of alternate layers of canvas and elastic material, such as rubber or rubber product, the opposite sides of said pad or cushion being pressed in or pinched by the lips F, formed by the walls of the groove D. The under side of the body has therein the recesses K,which communicate with the countersunk nail-openings J, said recesses extending upwardly above the tread-surface of the outer wall of the groove D and having between them solid and unbroken portions for contact with the street as the cushion wears away, said recesses enabling the blacksmith to drive the nails above the wearing-surface of the shoe. The countersinks receive the heads of the nails and prevent the downward projection of the same below the edge of said wall of the groove D, so that said heads are not liable to be struck and loosened. It will also be seen that the outer flange of the groove or recess in which the cushion or soft packing is fitted is beveled outwardly and countersunk to receive the nail-holes, the countersinks extending into the wall of said flange and being beveled toward the nail-holes, as at K, whereby'the nails are directed in inclined direction, so as to enter more fully into the hoof considerably above the bottom edge of the latter and so take better hold of the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A soft-tread shoe having flanges forming a recess for the soft packing or cushion,the outer fiange being beveled outwardly and countersunk to receive the nail-holes, the countersinks extending into the wall of said flange and beveled toward the nail-holes.

LIONEL D. SAXTON.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS. 

